The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

I didn't immediately connect those dots in particular, but yeah, of course it's all part of the same fascist project

monopolies and big corporate conglomerates, like billionaires, should not fucking exist

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Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

just misread Carcassonne as Carcosa, and hear me out...

this is extremely fucking important, esp with what just happened in kansas. they are trying to criminalize every aspect of our existence. i try not to be alarmist about things but this is where we are and it is BAD bad

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it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

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those dreams were a fucking trip... sometimes I was treading water, sometimes standing on a giant turtle like an island before the serpent part and there were filthy, wild looking people lining its throat pulling me down, and something like fire light from far, far below I was like 6-8

I wish all laid off game devs not just a very money, but a very let's destroy Silicon Valley. A very take back the means of production. A very fuck you capitalism. A very sustainability and improving lives

“but we didn’t intend for all these kids to die” and yet still you have caused their deaths. the purpose of a system is what it does.

This is human trafficking to be clear. And it's not new. Adoptees (among others) have been talking about these kind of pipelines for literal decades.

The core function of Capitalism is exploitation

Anyway. UBI now, obviously. Medicare for all, now, obviously.

every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I used to go mini viral on Twitter semi regularly by just posting this image of John leguizamo and saying: Ladies and gentlemen, John leguizamo

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

think about your phone's predictive text how often is it actually accurate for what word you're going to use next? all those complete the sentence memes... was that ever anything you'd actually say? and that was *before* the ai fuckery, which made all those functions actively worse

This. It's only ever accidentally, or as said here incidentally, correct bc actually answering questions isn't what these programs are designed to do. They statistically match the wording of a query with what *looks* like a possible answer when parsed through the training data.

oh my god??

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

between this and mass market paperbacks being retired, the reading landscape really has shifted seismically

Every arms manufacturer should be pulled apart, its engineers set to working on public infrastructure and barred from holding any kind of authority, its board and executives at the very least exiled and imprisoned for life.

A weapon made solely to deny families closure, to inflict psychic damage on entire societies. People planned and built this. They sold it to their superiors. They manufactured it. They loaded it on planes and drones and dropped it on human beings.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

in contrast, my best friend has been watching Heated Rivalry with the fervor of a 70s bender, while I rewatch IWTV like it's comfort food lol

Layne Staley (Alice in chains) invites a guy throwing Nazi salutes in the crowd on stage....proceeds to beat his ass 🤷‍♂️

Discord served its purpose almost flawlessly by 2021 and then constantly made itself worse over the ensuing years The constant drive to change products that serve their purpose perfectly well really does exemplify the problems with an "endless growth" mindset

Most people in the United States today have no idea we committed genocide in the Philippines. They have no idea we committed genocide in Cambodia either, or in Chilé, or in any of a dozen other places around the world in the twentieth century alone.

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I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp History rhymes, it rhymes Close the camps, set fire to the prisons

sure has been a time to be a CSA survivor on the internet, I tell you hwat

A+++ Appalachian protest sign:

the primary blocker to UBI is the puritan belief that humanity is so sinful and depraved that it should not be permitted personhood unless it becomes 'civilised' that's how liberal social policy ended up asserting that helping people would harm them but hurting people would help them